it's impressive -- rodney got a late-ish start, but he's been around a long time. he is, for another few days, the active saves leader. he's been mostly average, couple bad seasons, with a few stretches of utter dominance mixed in. no aroldis, but definitely an above-average reliever for like 15 years.

and his entire career has been as valuable as four months or so of trout or betts

Holliday could be a nice pinch hitter to have for a stretch run, if he has his batting eye. Be cool for him, if this is the last shot, to finish his career in the bigs for the team he came up with. He still had some power when he left.

Giambi and Thome had a couple big hits a the end of their career doing that thing.